The invasion of Cuba, the central affair of the war, did not develop until mid-June in Tampa, when 17,000 troops, including and particularly Theodore Roosevelt's "Rough Riders", arrived at the Florida city. ... Almost as lopsided as a Pittsburgh Penguin trade, the Spanish delegates conceded Guam, which was taken by surprise early in the war, and Puerto Rico, which General Nelson Miles took after Cuba had been seized. ... In support of America's newly established power, the annexation of Hawaii, freedom of Cuba, and gain of Puerto Rico would have fell on fond ears to me. ... Puerto...

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The United States has always prided itself as the "Great Bastion of Democracy". However, the history of the US in Latin America is much more ambiguous than the vision of a great nation freeing Latin Americans from dictatorship and sowing the seeds of liberty and democracy; instead, the US has all to...

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